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The Springfield Republican
ESTABLISHED IN 1824 BY SAMUEL BOWLES
DAILY - - - SUNDAY - - - WEEKLY

SPRINGFIELD, MASS.
May 7 1930

Dearest Mummie:

I was glad to hear from you; for I feared that you were ill when I didn't hear for such a long time. Hope you aren't all tired out from your festivities. It seems to me too that we do all sorts of things we don't want to do all the time. It's silly, isn't it? I should like to live on an island where it wasn't necessary to wear much clothing and where life could be maintained effortlessly and agreeably. You should read "Mr Fortune's Maggot" for the account of the reformation effected in the life of a missionary who got shipwrecked on a South Sea island. Perhaps we could get shipwrecked. Wouldn't it be nice?

We had a picnic last night too, the two Ruths and little Jean Downing, out at her mother's farm. Built a fire beside the lake and cooked bacon and eggs and made coffee. It was nice and you would have liked it. Hope you can go there some time.

Nothing very exciting has happened here. Ruth Fisher had a birthday this week but has to work that night. I took her up to the Whale inn in Goshen Sunday for dinner to celebrate; and we had a little cake and icecream on the day itself. I haven't been